--- title: Jenny Slate Once Freaked Out Over Buying a $300 TV description: Actress Jenny Slate and actor Jordan Peele comment how they felt financially secure. authors: - name: Alicia Adamczyk url: https://money.com/author/alicia-adamczyk/ at_money_since: 2015 articles: 201 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Personal Finance - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/aliciaadamczyk former_staff: true published: '2017-04-20T15:00:08.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T05:41:48.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - celebrity word_count: 248 canonical: https://money.com/jenny-slate-once-freaked-out-over-buying-a-300-tv/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Premiere Of Warner Bros. Pictures' "The LEGO Batman Movie" - Arrivals](https://img.money.com/2017/04/jenny-slate-2017.jpg) *Actress Jenny Slate arrives at the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures' 'The LEGO Batman Movie' at Regency Village Theatre on February 4, 2017 in Westwood, California.* A TV, bouquet of flowers, and a bottle of wine may seem like simple pleasures. But for actress Jenny Slate, being able to afford all three at one time was something of a financial breakthrough. "I panicked when I bought my TV," Slate said in an [interview with Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-18/eleven-celebrities-on-how-they-spend-their-money). "It’s like $300, but I was just like, 'Do you need a TV?' I’ll never forget how it felt to be a stand-up on unemployment." Though she's found recent success on the big screen—she's co-starring with Chris Evans in *Gifted* this spring—the frugality that was a necessary skill to have as an up-and-coming comic has been tough to shake. She's been making small strides, though: Slate recently moved into a "[sunny one-bedroom](http://www.vulture.com/2017/03/jenny-slate-gifted-chris-evans-breakup.html)" apartment in L.A.'s Silver Lake neighborhood, and indulges in trips to Whole Foods from time to time. "Instead of buying the prosciutto that’s packaged, I’m getting the sliced one from the counter," she said. "That was important to me." Fellow comic (and [Time 100 honoree](https://time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4742702/jordan-peele/)) Jordan Peele seconds Slate, saying having enough money to buy *things* isn't the end game for him. Real success is something entirely different. "When I was on *MADtv*, I was still living month to month," Peele told Bloomberg. "My obnoxious buy would’ve been an Xbox. You realize the value is in not having a side job. Even today I don’t splurge—I’m the anti-Scarface. All these things you imagined you’d buy—none of those would bring me much joy or peace." 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